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No remit for Prakash Jha’s ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’
- Updated: April 13, 2017
A still from a film
Director Alankrita Shrivastava is held in a bitter-sweet moment. While a Hollywood Foreign Press Association cleared ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’, for a Golden Globes, a film’s recover in India is stranded after a Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) denied acceptance to it. Attempts by writer Prakash Jha and her for service from Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) have come to a naught.
Rumours advise a FCAT group determining a predestine of a film, that enclosed Justice Sarin, Shekhar Ayyer, Poonam Dhillon, comparison disciple Veena Gupta and former publisher and romantic Shazia Ilmi, were incompetent to arrive during a end after they initial watched it on Mar 27.
Alankrita Shrivastava and Prakash Jha
Following a re-run in a unbroken week, sources advise FCAT members will ask a makers to exercise several cuts in a ‘graphic’ lovemaking scenes.A member tells mid-day, “It is a pleasing film. Personally, we found it empowering. However, a FCAT took time to hang a conduct around a content. The opinions have been polarised.”
Set in a tiny Indian town, Lipstick Under My Burkha chronicles a tour of 4 women of opposite ages, as they hunt for a certain kind of leisure in their particular lives. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur.
Acknowledging that a FCAT has given a immature light to argumentative films like Haramkhor (2015) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016), a source suggests Lipstick lifted eyebrows overdue to a lovemaking scenes.
“When sex is portrayed so elaborately, it becomes pornography. There are no bare scenes in a film though,” says a source, adding that yet their preference competence attract criticism, “toning down” an clamour stage competence only make a film permitted for incomparable audience.
While a FCAT will recover a central matter subsequent week, Ilmi argues, “The appellant has been given a good hearing. We have looked during a film sincerely and been in hold with a makers constantly.”
The FCAT mostly comes to a rescue of filmmakers uneasy by a high-handedness of CBFC arch Pahlaj Nihalani. However, a judiciary appears to be harsh as distant as this prolongation is concerned. Jha and Alankrita remained taken for comment